Someone sent this video which is too wonderful. Everyone I've shared it with has their favorite moment. You can tell alot about a person by the way they treat animals. The Dali Lama says, "If you want to start being a non-violent person; stop killing insects." It's do-able (more often than not).
"When our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one. It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings." Pope Francis
"When our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one. It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings." Pope Francis
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What is a heart of mercy? It is the heart on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, even for demons, and for all that exists. By the thought of them, the eyes of a merciful person pour forth tears in abundance. By the strong and intense mercy that grips such a person's heart, and by such great compassion, the heart is humbled and one cannot bear to hear or to see any injury or slight sorrow in any creature. For this reason, such a person offers up tearful prayer continually even for irrational beasts, for the enemies of the truth, and for those who harm him, that they be protected and receive mercy because of the great compassion that burns without measure in a heart that is in the likeness of God. Saint Isaac of Syria ~ 7th c.
